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1. Obama Aide 'Yelled' at Woodward
Presidents should know not to mess with Bob Woodward. The Washington Post journalist got a rude awakening last week when he called an aide to President Obama to warn that an article he was writing would question the president's account of the sequester's origins. Woodward said he was yelled at for over an hour, then received an apology email that said "I think you will regret staking out that claim." The White House denies it was a threat. "They have to be willing to live in the world where they're challenged," Woodward says. "I've tangled with lots of these people ... I don't think it's the way to operate."
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2. Justices Challenge Voting Rights Act
Almost 50 years after it was first enacted, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 could be facing its biggest challenge. Four of the five conservative Supreme Court justices raised questions over the monumental law's continued usefulness and fairness. The act requires nine states—most from the South—to seek federal permission to change voting procedures in order to prevent the racial exclusion. On Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia called the act a "perpetuation of racial entitlement," while Chief Justice John Roberts was skeptical that people in the South are really more racist than their Northern counterparts. At question is the formula, which is based on decades-old data, that determines the jurisdictions governed by the act.
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3. Sequester Votes Expected to Fail
With one day to go, the Senate is not expected to get the 60 votes needed to pass a Democrat-backed spending package, meaning cuts will likely go into effect Friday night. GOP leaders have offered a controversial plan to give the White House authority to implement the $85.3 billion in cuts for the fiscal year. It would give President Obama two weeks to bring a plan for the same level of cuts in order to avoid the indiscriminate sequester, but Republican lawmakers haven't thrown support in for the plan.
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4. Lew Confirmed as Treasury Sec
Our dollar bills are about to get a new, super-loopy signature. The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Jack Lew as the nation's 76th Treasury secretary. The former White House Budget Director under President Clinton and Chief of Staff under President Obama skated through the Senate vote with 71 votes approving and only 26 against. Hope he's ready to jump straight in--the government has a day left to find a compromise for $85 billion in budget cuts set to kick in Friday.
two years later Fighting in Aleppo on Saturday. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty)
5. U.S. Considers Direct Syria Aid
The Obama administration is making a big move toward proving Syrian rebels with a helping hand as fighting rages with no end in sight. A proposed policy would send humanitarian assistance to Syria's opposition coalition and equipment (but no weapons) to the rebels--the first direct aid offered since civil war broke out two years ago. Secretary of State John Kerry will be discussing the proposal with allies in the Middle East and Europe this week in order to coordinate efforts. On Tuesday, Kerry told students in Germany that America hopes for a "peaceful resolution." but without cooperation from Syrian leaders, "then you need to at least provide some kind of support."
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6. CA Files Anti–Prop 8 Brief With Supreme Court
California's top law-enforcement officer filed a Supreme Court brief to overturn Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday, ahead of arguments over the ban that will be heard by justices next month. In the 45-page brief, Attorney General Kamala Harris said she believes the ban violates the 14th Amendment, and has stripped "loving relationships of validation and dignity under law." Harris also argued that proponents of Prop 8 have no authority to enforce laws. Her brief comes on the heels of a major legal endorsement of gay marriage by 70 Republicans.
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7. Study: Racial Wealth Gap Widening
Racial inequality is alive and well. According to a new study, the wealth gap between African-American and white families has tripled in the past quarter century. The study, conducted by Brandeis University's Institute on Assets and Social Policy, found that the gap between white and African-American family wealth increased from $85,070 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009, with African-Americans making less than whites. The biggest culprit of the disparity: homeownership, followed by income. Thanks to racial discrimination in the job market, it's harder for African-Americans to build income, according to the study, and they tend to be more vulnerable to home foreclosure.
CAPITOL DRAMA Speaker Boehner on Tuesday. (Win McNamee/Getty)
8. Boehner: Senate Can Get 'Off Their Ass'
If the level of crisis is measured by the severity of John Boehner's language, then the sequester still hasn't reached the level of the fiscal cliff, when the House Speaker told Harry Reid, "Go f--k yourself." Boehner said in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that the House will not be taking up the looming budget cuts known as the sequester for the third time before the "Senate gets off their ass and passes it once." Boehner knocked Senate Democrats and President Obama for not having a plan to avoid the sequester, while Obama shifted blame back to Boehner and congressional Republicans for refusing to increase taxes. If no deal is reached before March 1, some $85 billion worth of automatic spending cuts will kick in, hitting nearly every government program.
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9. Snapchat Sued by Stanford Grad
Hope Aaron Sorkin is ready to write a sequel to The Social Network. A Stanford graduate is suing the two founders of the photo-sharing app Snapchat, claiming he originally came up with the idea. A lawyer for Frank Reginald Brown IV (could he sound more like a Winklevoss-type character?) says his client originated the idea and logo and then spent a summer working on the app with the Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, who later changed the passwords to the servers and cut him out. "We are aware of the allegations, believe them to be utterly devoid of merit, and will vigorously defend ourselves against this frivolous suit," a spokesperson for Snapchat told TechCrunch.
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10. Katzenberg Begins DreamWorks Layoffs
Not even Shrek can save the day now. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, tells The Hollywood Reporter that the first layoffs in the company's history have begun. Citing the poor performance of the recent animated release Rise of the Guardians and the postponing of the planned flick Me and My Shadow, Katzenberg says the studio—previously behind such megahits as Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda—will have to let 350 of its 2,200 employees go by the end of the year. "These things are very, very difficult to do," Katzenberg says. "I would say it's the hardest thing I've had to do since we started DreamWorks."
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11. Inspiration Mars Ship Looks Like Sex Toy
This is what happens when you don't have enough women in the sciences. The Inspiration Mars Foundation is proposing a plan to send a manned mission to fly past Mars in the year 2018. Which is great, except that it seems someone neglected to tell the foundation that the model for their spaceship looks like a giant vibrator. The Hitachi Magic Wand, to be exact. The trip would take roughly two years, and the plan is reportedly to choose a middle-aged couple to man it, since they would be used to sharing confined space for long periods of time. Well, at least now we have an idea about how they can stay entertained.
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12. Dow Closes at Five-Year High
The U.S. stock market soared to a new five-year high Thursday, as the Dow Jones industrial average rose 175 points, decisively crashing through the 14,000 barrier. Despite threats from home (the sequester) and abroad (Italy-inspired Euro turmoil), investors seem to be convinced that U.S. economic growth is solid and companies will continue to prosper.
13. Spider-Man's Web Could Stop Subway Car
Spider-Man may be fictional, but apparently some of his superpowers exist in the real world. Three young physicists in the U.K. have determined that Spidey's seemingly iron web—the one that stopped a runaway subway train in Spider-Man 2—would be "proportional to that of real spiders." Eager to myth-bust a scene from the second Spider-Man movie, the team calculated that the silk webs of Darwin's Bark spider, which has the strongest-known web, would in fact be able to stop four New York subway cars carrying 984 people. Meanwhile, across the pond, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago is developing a "SpiderSense" suit.
VALETE Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square with his last audience, February 27. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
14. Pope: I'm 'Not Coming Down From the Cross'
Pope Benedict XVI told an estimated 150,000 worshipers packed into St. Peter's Square in the Vatican for his final Mass on Wednesday that he is "not coming down from the cross." Benedict, the first pope in almost 600 years to retire, recalled the "joy" of the papacy, but also insisted that "to love the church means to have the courage to take difficult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind, not oneself." Meanwhile, most of the church's most powerful cardinals are already in the Vatican to pick Benedict's successor, and Benedict will meet with them for the final time on Thursday morning. Oddsmakers have Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson at 11–4 odds of being the next pope, and Italy's Archbishop Angelo Scola with 3–1 odds.
CULTURAL ICON Van Cliburn in 1959. (AP)
15. Famed Pianist Van Cliburn Dies
American pianist Van Cliburn has passed away at the age of 78. Cliburn won the top prize at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow at the age of 23. It was a victory for the U.S. over the Soviets during the Cold War, catapulting the young man into a celebrity. He was even welcomed back to New York City with a ticker-tape parade and 100,000 people. A pianist as popular as Justin Bieber? That doesn't happen anymore. He had been suffering from bone cancer.
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16. Sarah Palin to D.C.: Cut the Drama
Just when you thought you'd heard the last of her, Sarah Palin comes back with a vengeance. The former Alaska governor is calling on Congress to "grow up, get to work, and live within its means." In a letter on her Facebook page, which has received over 3 million likes in the 20 hours since it was posted, Palin writes, "Americans are sick and tired of yet another ginned-up crisis. The real economic Armageddon looming before us," she argues, "is our runaway debt, not the sequester." She insists that President Obama is actually to blame for the coming budget cuts "and is running around denouncing [them] now because he never had any genuine intention of reining in his reckless spending."
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17. Titanic II Sets Sail in 2016
We all know what happened the last time someone tried this, right? A "sequel" to the doomed 1912 ship, the Titanic, was announced on Tuesday, with its designer claiming that the Titanic II will be the "most safe cruise ship in the world." That apparently translates into having "more than enough" lifeboats (whereas the original Titanic had only 16) and a hull made from steel composite. Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer, who masterminded the project, wisely refused to call it "unsinkable," however. The new ship will take pains to recreate details from the original ship, including splitting passengers into three classes and barring them from moving between classes. Passengers will also be provided with early 20th century-style clothes and undergarments. See video from the New York launch event (which, appropriately, kicked off with a rendition of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") below.
'GIRL MEAT' Valle in federal court on Monday. (Elizabeth Williams/AP)
18. Cannibal Cop: I'd BBQ Friend
Accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle allegedly planned to barbecue a friend, according to testimony on Tuesday. Valle, charged with conspiracy to kill and eat up to 100 women, shared a YouTube video of college acquaintance Kimberly Sauer, and posted in an online chat that Sauer "was going to be delicious," FBI Agent Corey Walsh said. Valle's attorneys have claimed that all of the online conversations were just fantasy and he never acted on any of the grisly things he described. Walsh also testified that Valle had written frequently about "cannibalism, foot fetishes, asphyxiation fetishes, different things of that nature" and also that he had rejected offers of black women, allegedly saying "white girls seem the most appetizing to me." Valle's trial will resume Wednesday.
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19. CNN Ratings Drop
There just weren't enough cruise crises to save CNN this month. CNN's ratings slid in February, falling 5 percent in the daytime and 1 percent at night in the first full month since the high-profile arrival of new network chief Jeff Zucker at the beginning of the month. Fox News Network won the month with more than 1 million daily viewers, more than MSNBC and CNN combined. In February 2012, CNN came in second and MSNBC third—and, in even worse news for CNN, the network has seen a 10 percent decline in total daytime viewers and a whopping 18 percent drop in nighttime viewers from one year ago. The much-mocked all-day-long cruise coverage in the middle of month was the only bright spot, with viewership up on February 14.
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20. Tina Fey as Oscar Host? 'No Way.'
With critics ready to pounce on every errant cough from the Oscar host, there are few jobs more thankless in Hollywood. So when asked whether she'd emcee next year's Academy Awards—as so many people have wishing upon a star for her to do—Tina Fey told the Huffington Post, unequivocally, not a chance. "I just feel like that gig is so hard," Fey said. "Especially for, like, a woman—the amount of months that would be spent trying on dresses alone … no way." But c'mon … is there even the slightest chance she'd change her mind? "I wish I could tell you there was," she said. Blerg!
21. Miss Delaware Teen USA Resigns
Another pageant queen lost to porn. Miss Delaware Teen USA Melissa King resigned on Tuesday after porn images of her surfaced on the Internet. The 18-year-old reportedly denies that it was her in the hardcore sex tape, which was made four months before she was crowned Miss Delaware Teen USA. A rep for the pageant said they have already reached out to the first runner-up to take over for King.
CLEVER Representatives John Boehner and Eric Cantor on Tuesday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty)
22. House GOP to Sneakily Allow VAWA
Isn't this kind of like when instead of studying you write a crib sheet—and then learn the material anyway? House Republicans are reportedly going to allow the Violence Against Women Act to pass without actually forcing their members to vote for it, sources told Talking Points Memo Tuesday. Confused? Here's the plan: the Rules Commission added a caveat in the House bill that if it isn't passed, the Democrat- and moderate Republican–approved Senate bill will go to an up or down vote in the House—which it is likely to get. More-conservative House Republicans have taken issue with the Senate bill's protections for gays, Native Americans, and undocumented workers, but the Senate has refused to budge. If the Senate bill passes, everyone wins—especially women.
THREATS Portion of Arak nuclear facility photographed in Jan. 2011. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency, via AP)
23. Iran Develops Nuclear 'Plan B'
Who knew Iran followed the motto of "try, try again" so well? The country is apparently developing a Plan B for a nuclear bomb, with satellite images taken earlier this month showing Iran has activated a plant that could have nuclear capabilities. The images, published in Britain's Telegraph on Wednesday, show signs of the production of heavy water, which is needed to produce a nuclear reactor. The heavily guarded facility has not been visited by the Atomic Energy Agency since August 2011, and Iran has refused to give requested information about the site. Iran insists the nuclear production is for peacetime use.
ACCUSED Teachers' union leader Elba Esther Gordillo in 2006. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)
24. Mexican Union Leader Arrested
Mexico union leader Elba Esther Gordillo, who has been called the country's "most powerful woman," was arrested on Wednesday on allegations that she embezzled $156 million from union funds. Gordillo is the head of the 1.5 million-member Mexican teachers' union, SNTE, and has been dogged by rumors of fraud for years, although this is the first time charges have been brought against her. Gordillo is being accused of "systematic embezzlement" of union accounts between 2008 and 2012, and of using the money for property, trips to the U.S., and plastic surgery. Gordillo's wealthy union has led the fight against Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's education reforms, which SNTE has claimed will lead to massive layoffs and the privatization of education.
WATCH YOUR TWEETS Senator McConnell on Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
25. Anti-McConnell Group Apologizes
A liberal Kentucky super PAC apologized on Tuesday for tweeting jokes linking Sen. Mitch McConnell's wife, former Labor secretary Elaine Chao, who was born in Taiwan, to outsourced jobs. Earlier this month, Progress Kentucky tweeted that "this woman has the ear @McConnellPress—she's his wife. May explain why your job moved to China!" The tweet then linked to a webpage that accused Chao of discriminating against U.S. workers while she worked in the Bush administration. McConnell accused the group of using "blatant race-baiting for political gain," and Republicans and Democrats alike denounced the comment. Progress Kentucky has since deleted the tweet and called the comment "unnecessary."
IT'S OVER! Hagel during confirmation hearing on Jan. 31. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
26. Senate Finally Confirms Hagel
Senate has voted 58-41 in favor of confirming Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of Defense, ending a long, drawn-out battle between members of Congress and the White House. The Senate ended its filibuster of the Hagel nomination earlier on Tuesday, allowing the vote to go on. A number of key Republicans who had been blocking Hagel's nomination, including John McCain, Tom Coburn, and Kelly Ayotte, voted to end the filibuster. It's likely Hagel will be confirmed by the end of the day.
KING OF BEERS Joe Raedle/Getty
27. Budweiser Sued for Watering Down Beer
What would the Budweiser frog say? U.S. consumers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court against AB InBev for allegedly watering down Budweiser. The company, which makes not only Budweiser but also Stella Artois, controls 39 percent of the U.S. beer market and is currently looking to expand with a bid to buy Modelo, a Mexican brewing company that currently controls 7 percent of the American market. The complaint alleges AB InBev mislabels the amount of alcohol in Bud Ice, Bud Light Platinum, Michelob, King Cobra, Busch Ice, Black Crowne, Bud Light Lime, Hurricane High Gravity Lager, Natural Ice, and Michelob Ultra. An AB InBev spokesman called the complaints "completely false" and insisted "our beers are in full compliance with all alcohol labeling laws."
28. Several Killed in Swiss Shooting
Several people have been killed in a shooting Wednesday at a Swiss factory near Lucerne, authorities said, and at least four were critically injured. Police said the shooting took place at 9 a.m. at the wood factory plant called Kronospan in the town of Menznau. The factory employs 410 people, according to local media. No motive has been reported. There is no national gun registry in Switzerland, but it is estimated that up to one in three of the country's 8 million residents own guns.


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However there was no discussion of putting rails back down on the rail corridor. And there are no plans to do so. The corridor will be used for walking, biking and horses for as far into the future as anyone can see.
I've been attending these meetings from the start and am quite sure the rails component has been on the table, though obviously for, way out in the future.
Perhaps I missed the meeting where that idea was crossed off the list? Even at early board of commissioner meetings on the subject the rail access was cited as one of the key aspects to benefit the county in the long run. So, while you are correct that it was not discussed at last week's meeting, it's been my understanding all along that it was part of the ultimate plan. I will look into clarifying that this week. If you have more information, please contact me. Thank you - Nathalie
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Malaysia Airlines Commences Double Daily - Kuala Lumpur-London Return A380 Operations
Sepang, 24 November 2012 : Malaysia Airlines' today commenced the twice daily A380 Kuala Lumpur-London-Kuala Lumpur services with the inaugural daytime flight MH4 departing KL International Airport (KLIA) for the UK capital at 10.45am.
This double daily was made possible after the national carrier received its third and fourth A380 aircraft on 19 November and yesterday respectively.
With the introduction of the double daily A380 services, Malaysia Airlines will cease the 359-seater B747-400 flight operations between KLIA and London.
- The daytime flight MH4 will depart KLIA at 10.45 am daily and arrives London Heathrow the same day at 4.15 pm. The return flight MH1 departs London daily at 10.00 pm and arrive KLIA the next day at 6.20 pm.
- This daytime service will be complemented by a daily night service to the UK capital. MH 2 departs KLIA at 11.40 pm and arrives in London at 5.50 am the following day. The return flight MH3 departs London at 12.00 noon and arrives at KLIA at 7.25 am the next day.
Commenting on this development, Malaysia Airlines' Group Chief Executive Officer, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said, "The double daily A380 service is part of our Business Plan to win back customers by gradually expanding our fleet with new aircraft featuring state-of-the-art passenger amenities. Complemented by our award-winning cabin staff, we are confident that such attributes will continue to drive revenue and loads, and our return to profitability".
Malaysia Airlines has also introduced a special service on the daytime A380 flight for children between the ages of 5 to 15.
Aimed at raising awareness of onboard safety in a fun way, young passengers, in groups of four and accompanied by two cabin staff, will be taken on a tour on the Upper and Main deck economy class. The young ones will be briefed on the A380 aircraft galleys, get a chance to try out the cabin attendant's seats, life jackets and even take a peek at the crew bunk.
Malaysia Airlines A380 is the only full service carrier to offer direct services between Malaysia and the UK.
The introduction of the double daily service improves Malaysia Airlines weekly seat capacity by 37% in both directions of the KLIA-London Heathrow route. A total of 6,916 seats weekly are offered compared to 5,026 seats through the earlier double daily B747-400 operations.
Malaysia Airlines is the eighth operator in the world of the new A380 aircraft series, and will receive its remaining two A380 by the first quarter of 2013.
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Events ArchiveClick to View Upcoming Miller Center Events
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4/23/2014 -
Hillary Clinton, Midterm Elections, and the 2016 Presidential Campaign (American Forum)
Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
4/16/2014 -
James Madison and the Brink of National Ruin
Alan Taylor
4/16/2014 -
National Security and Debates Regarding Domestic Surveillance (American Forum)
John Rizzo, Genevieve Lester
4/8/2014 -
41: Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush (American Forum)
Michael Nelson, Barbara Perry
4/4/2014 -
How the United States Should Respond to Emerging Powers
James B. Steinberg
4/1/2014 -
Special Event - Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison
Alvin Townley, Admiral Bob Shumaker
3/28/2014 -
Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex
Jamie Morin, Douglas O'Reagan, Kate Epstein
3/26/2014 -
The Mind of Vladimir Putin (American Forum)
Clifford Gaddy, Yuri Urbanovich
3/20/2014 -
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics: A Synopsis (Colloquium)
Morris P. Fiorina
3/19/2014 -
U.S. Grant and the Crisis of Reconstruction
Joan Waugh
3/19/2014 -
Glock and Gun Culture in America (American Forum)
Paul M. Barrett
3/5/2014 -
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (American Forum)
Michael S. Neiberg
2/28/2014 -
Latino Conservatives: Right Wing Aesthetics and Representative Claims (Colloquium)
Cristina Beltran
2/26/2014 -
Sink Hole: How Kansas Crises Undid the Presidencies of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan
Michael F. Holt
2/26/2014 -
Fifty Years After Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (American Forum)
Bob Moses
2/19/2014 -
Why Remember the Civil War/150th Anniversary Series (American Forum)
Gary W. Gallagher
2/17/2014 -
50 Years of the Great Society: Legacies of Lyndon Johnson's Ann Arbor Address
Sidney M. Milkis, Harry Harding, Guian McKee
2/12/2014 -
An Empire of Influence not Arms (American Forum)
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
2/10/2014 -
Breakthrough in Iran? The Nuclear Deal, the U.S., and Prospects for Stability in the Middle East (American Forum)
Ambassador Ryan Crocker
2/5/2014 -
Milstein Symposium: Commission on America's Manufacturing Future (American Forum)
Haley Barbour, Evan Bayh
1/29/2014 -
When the Greatest Generation Wasn't so Certain (American Forum)
Lynne Olson, Richard Moe
1/23/2014 -
A Conversation with Attorney General Eric Holder (American Forum)
Eric Holder
1/8/2014 -
Double Down: Game Change 2012 (American Forum)
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
12/6/2013 -
The Future of U.S. Health Care (Colloquium)
Rick Mayes, Raymond C Scheppach
12/4/2013 -
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (American Forum)
Professor Ira Katznelson
12/2/2013 -
Caplin 2013 Keynote: Lessons From History
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Caplin 2013: A Deeper U.S.-EU Economic Relationship: Implications for American Global Strategy
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Caplin 2013: Is TTIP Good for the United States?
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Days of Fire: The Political Partnership of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (American Forum)
Peter Baker
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Concluding Roundtable: Inclusiveness as Reality and Strategy
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Panel Six: Other Triangles
Leonard J Schoppa, Robert Stolz, Ren Xiao
11/16/2013 -
Panel Five: Security Beyond the Security Triangle: Can Security be Inclusive?
Da Wei, Allen C. Lynch, Robert Sutter, Yuan-Kang Wang
11/16/2013 -
Panel Four: Using the Triangle
Chuang Yi-Chyi, Dennis Yang, Shirley Lin, Shu-Heng Chen
11/16/2013 -
Inclusive Triangularity
Chas W Freeman
11/15/2013 -
Concluding Observations
Dr Harry Harding
11/15/2013 -
Panel Three: The Shared Future of East Asia
John Echeverri-Gent, Lyle Goldstein, Tang Ching-Ping, Yong Cai
11/15/2013 -
Panel Two: Challenges of Inclusive Integration
Ekaterina Makarova, Hao Yufan, Leng Tse-Kang, Wang Jenn-Hwan
11/15/2013 -
Panel One: Taiwan, China, and Asia: Inclusive Identities?
Fred Damon, John Fuh-Sheng Hsieh, John Shepherd
11/15/2013 -
Dynamics of Inclusiveness
Gerald L Baliles, Brantly Womack, Dr Harry Harding
11/13/2013 -
Surrender at Appomattox: What did it really mean? (American Forum)
Elizabeth R. Varon
11/11/2013 -
Lessons Learned: State-Building in Afghanistan
Hilda Arellano, Ryan Crocker, Elizabeth Field, Robin Lynn Raphel
11/11/2013 -
Lessons Learned: State-Building in Iraq
Stuart W. Bowen, Seth Center, Ryan Crocker, James Savage
11/8/2013 -
Andrew Jackson and the Troubled Birth of Democracy
Henry William Brands
10/25/2013 -
There's No Place Like Home (Colloquium)
Jennifer Klein
10/21/2013 -
Central American Development and the Future of U.S. Trade Relations (American Forum)
10/21/2013 -
The Prospects for Political Stability and Democratic Governance Amidst Violence in Central America (American Forum)
10/21/2013 -
Kennedy and Latin America-50th Anniversary Retrospective-The State of the Region Then and Now (American Forum)
10/16/2013 -
James Knox Polk and the War with Mexico
Daniel Walker Howe
10/16/2013 -
JFK and the Vietnam Escalation (American Forum)
Marc Selverstone
10/11/2013 -
Session 2: Workplace and Border Security
10/7/2013 -
Escape from the Quagmire? The Way Ahead in Syria, Egypt and the Middle East (American Forum)
Ryan Crocker, David Rohde, Shibley Telhami
10/4/2013 -
Lead Wars, Panel 2: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (Colloquium)
James Childress, Merlin Chowkwanyun, Patricia King, Guian McKee, Jack Schwartz
10/4/2013 -
Lead Wars, Panel 1: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (Colloquium)
Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
10/2/2013 -
A Town Hall Meeting on the Middle Class and State of the American Dream (American Forum)
Martin Baron, Jennifer Marsico, Thomas A. Hirschl
9/27/2013 -
Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic, and Evidence
Frank Harvey, Melvyn P. Leffler, John M. Owen, William B Quandt, Philip Zelikow
9/25/2013 -
JFK and the Anger of the 1960s (American Forum)
Steven L. Davis, Bill Minutaglio
9/18/2013 -
Lincoln and Davis: War Presidents (Colloquium)
Gary W. Gallagher, James M. McPherson
9/17/2013 -
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (American Forum)
George Packer
9/11/2013 -
JFK and the Breakthrough for Civil Rights (American Forum)
William P. Jones
9/4/2013 -
The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (American Forum)
Gilbert King
8/28/2013 -
Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (American Forum)
Barbara Perry
6/3/2013 -
Congress and Policy Making in the 21st Century
Jeffery Jenkins, Eric M. Patashnik
5/10/2013 -
Manuscript Review, "One Nation Under God," by Kevin Kruse
Prof. Darren Dochuk, Prof. Kevin Kruse, Prof. Michael Lienesch, Reihan Salam
5/2/2013 -
A Conversation with Ryan Crocker and James Schlesinger (American Forum)
Gerald L Baliles, Ryan Crocker, James R Schlesinger
5/1/2013 -
Special Conversations with Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Former Ambassador Ryan Crocker (American Forum)
Ryan Crocker, Eric Holder
4/29/2013 -
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (American Forum)
John Fabian Witt
4/19/2013 -
The End of the American Century? (American Forum)
Andrew J. Bacevich
4/15/2013 -
Klansville, USA: the Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (American Forum)
David Cunningham
4/11/2013 -
The U.S.-Israeli Relationship in a World of Change and Volatility
Ambassador Michael Oren
4/4/2013 -
Who Stole the American Dream (American Forum)
Hedrick Smith
4/1/2013 -
The King Years (American Forum)
Taylor Branch
3/29/2013 -
Before the Washington Consensus: India and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Colloquium)
Nicole Sackley
3/28/2013 -
Beyond the Triangle: Asia and Washington-Beijing-Taipei
Hao Yufan, Dr Harry Harding, Takashi Sekiyama
3/28/2013 -
Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei
Brantly Womack, Leng Tse-Kang, Admiral Joseph W. Prueher, Ren Xiao
3/27/2013 -
Don't Stop the Party (American Forum)
Matt Kibbe
3/25/2013 -
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves (American Forum)
Henry Wiencek
3/21/2013 -
Ike's Bluff (American Forum)
Evan Thomas
3/18/2013 -
Origins of the Era of Unconventional War (American Forum)
Fredrik Logevall
3/8/2013 -
Immigration Federalism: Why It Matters for National Reform (Colloquium)
Carol Swain
3/4/2013 -
Sources of Terror (American Forum)
Clark McCauley
3/1/2013 -
The United States and the Twentieth Century Global Human Rights Imagination (Colloquium)
Mark P. Bradley
2/25/2013 -
Panel Discussion: Restraining the Toll of War and Violence (American Forum)
Severine Autessere, Geoffrey S. Corn, Andrew Gilbert, Ambassador David Scheffer
2/18/2013 -
The Elections of 2012
Marian Currinder, David Mayhew, Nicole Mellow, Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson
2/11/2013 -
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (American Forum)
Max Boot
2/8/2013 -
Neoliberal Time and Popular Education in the Migrant Day Laborer Movement (Colloquium)
Paul Apostolidis
2/4/2013 -
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War (American Forum)
Madeleine K. Albright
1/28/2013 -
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America (American Forum)
James T. Patterson
1/25/2013 -
Immigration Policy and Border Security in the 113th Congress (Colloquium)
Marc R. Rosenblum
1/24/2013 -
Soldiers in the American Imagination (American Forum)
Kimberley L. Phillips
1/22/2013 -
Slavery by Another Name: Film Screening and Panel Discussion (American Forum)
Douglas Blackmon
1/18/2013 -
A Voter's-Eye View of the 2012 Election (Colloquium)
Charles Stewart
1/14/2013 -
What Now? The Next Great Immigration Debate (American Forum)
John Morton
12/7/2012 -
A 'Commitment to Strict Construction' (Colloquium)
Sophia Lee
12/7/2012 -
The 2012 Mortimer Caplin Conference on the World Economy
See Below
12/3/2012 -
A Melting Pot, or Not: Perspectives on the Immigration Debate (American Forum)
Manuel Pastor, Mark Krikorian
11/30/2012 -
CANCELLED: 'General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have' (Colloquium)
Matthew Connelly
11/29/2012 -
The Most Exclusive Club (American Forum)
Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs
11/19/2012 -
Lives of the Giants: George F. Kennan (American Forum)
John Lewis Gaddis
11/14/2012 -
From the Dixiecrats to Mitt Romney (American Forum)
Joseph Crespino
11/12/2012 -
What it Means: Decoding the Result of the Presidential Election (American Forum)
Ryan Lizza
11/9/2012 -
Uncertainty, Institutions, and Citizens' Policy Attitudes: An Experimental Investigation (Colloquium)
Alan Jacobs
11/2/2012 -
Exploring Variation in State Policy Choices during the Great Recession (Colloquium)
Andrea Louise Campbell
10/31/2012 -
It's Even Worse Than It Looks (American Forum)
Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E Mann
10/26/2012 -
Recasting Presidential History
10/22/2012 -
50 Years After Camelot: The Cuban Missile Crisis (American Forum)
Marc Selverstone
10/15/2012 -
W Was Right (American Forum)
Stephen Knott
10/12/2012 -
A Little Insurance: Landlords, Colored People & Forgotten Uses of the Federal Housing Administration (Colloquium)
Nathan Connolly
10/11/2012 -
Love, Death and the Health Care Crisis (American Forum)
Amanda Bennett
10/9/2012 -
The 2012 Presidential Election in Historical Context (Colloquium)
Ron Formisano, Sidney M. Milkis, Christina Wolbrecht
10/8/2012 -
America Divided (American Forum)
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
10/5/2012 -
Mexican Migration to the United States: New Patterns, New Responses? (Colloquium)
Susan Martin
10/1/2012 -
The Roots of All of Us (American Forum)
Rachel L. Swarns
9/28/2012 -
Inventing Postindustrial Politics (Colloquium)
9/27/2012 -
Crisis in Syria (American Forum)
Michele Dunne
9/24/2012 -
Fact vs. Presidential Myth: The Obama Version (American Forum)
David Maraniss
9/17/2012 -
Revealing Congress: How C-SPAN Changed Democracy (American Forum)
Brian Lamb
9/12/2012 -
The Way Forward (American Forum)
Teresa A. Sullivan
9/7/2012 -
Secrets and Traditions, Part 1
Guian McKee
9/7/2012 -
Secrets and Traditions, Part 2
5/18/2012 -
The Long Battle Ahead: The 2012 Presidential Election and How The Washington Post Will Cover It (American Forum)
Marcus Brauchli, Chris Cillizza
5/9/2012 -
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden—from 9/11 to Abbottabad (American Forum)
Peter Bergen
5/7/2012 -
What the American Public Thinks About the Obama Administration's Push for Evidence-Based Medicine (American Forum)
Eric M. Patashnik
5/4/2012 -
Delegated Powers: The Mix of Public and Private Authority in American Social Policy (Colloquium)
Kimberly J. Morgan
4/30/2012 -
Watergate in Nixonland: The Challenge of Presenting Public History in a Presidential Library (American Forum)
Timothy Naftali
4/27/2012 -
The Case for Policy-Focused Political Analysis (Colloquium)
Paul Pierson
4/23/2012 -
Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad (American Forum)
Bruce Riedel
4/16/2012 -
The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking (Colloquium)
Beth Simmons
4/16/2012 -
Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance (American Forum)
J Harvie Wilkinson
4/13/2012 -
'Generation Gap' to 'Just Say No': Suburban Politics and the War on Drugs from the 1960s - 1980s (Colloquium)
Matthew D. Lassiter
4/6/2012 -
Money Matters: Debt Markets and Growth Politics in the Modern United States (Colloquium)
David Freund
4/2/2012 -
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (American Forum)
Del Quentin Wilber
3/30/2012 -
When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H.W. Bush (Colloquium)
Jeffrey A. Engel
3/26/2012 -
The Real Romney (American Forum)
Michael Kranish
3/19/2012 -
Civility in American Politics: How to Get (Some of) it Back (American Forum)
Jonathan Haidt
3/16/2012 -
Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War (American Forum)
Frank Costigliola
2/24/2012 -
Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (American Forum)
Allen C. Lynch
2/20/2012 -
Presidential Elections - The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents (American Forum)
Linda Killian
2/17/2012 -
The Black History of the White House (American Forum)
Clarence Lusane
2/13/2012 -
U.S. Intelligence in the Wake of September 11:The Rise of the Spy Commando (American Forum)
Frederick P. Hitz
2/10/2012 -
Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President (American Forum)
Eli Saslow
2/6/2012 -
Shifting Sands: The Middle East in Upheaval (American Forum)
Kenneth M. Pollack
2/3/2012 -
Election 2012 and Retooling the American Economy (American Forum)
Alan Murray
1/30/2012 -
The Obamas (American Forum)
Jodi Kantor
1/27/2012 -
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (American Forum)
Theda Skocpol
1/23/2012 -
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America (American Forum)
David O. Stewart
1/20/2012 -
Keys to the Kingdom (American Forum)
Senator Bob Graham
1/16/2012 -
MLK Day Event: New Forum Chair Doug Blackmon (American Forum)
Douglas Blackmon
12/16/2011 -
The State of the U.S. Economy (American Forum)
Peter L. Rodriguez
12/12/2011 -
A Conversation About U.S. Immigration Policy (American Forum)
Alejandro Mayorkas
12/9/2011 -
James Madison (American Forum)
Richard Brookhiser
12/5/2011 -
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (American Forum)
Charles C. Mann
12/2/2011 -
Good Neighbor Nation (Colloquium)
Nancy Rosenblum
12/2/2011 -
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (American Forum)
Dana Priest
11/28/2011 -
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (American Forum)
Tim Groseclose
11/18/2011 -
Problem Solving in the 112th Congress: The Debt Crisis and Beyond (Colloquium)
E. Scott Adler
11/18/2011 -
Classical Lessons of Leadership: The Case for National Public Service (American Forum)
Josiah Bunting, III
11/16/2011 -
POSTPONED: In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (American Forum)
Dick Cheney
11/15/2011 -
Concluding lunch with keynote address by David Mayhew, Yale University
David Mayhew
11/15/2011 -
Panel III.
Judith Goldstein, Professor Jeff Jenkins, Carol Swain, Dorian Warren
11/14/2011 -
Panel II.
Sean Farhang, Richard Immerman, Jennifer Merolla, Sidney M. Milkis
11/14/2011 -
Panel I.
Eric M. Patashnik, Lawrence Jacobs, R. Shep Melnick, Terry M. Moe
11/11/2011 -
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, the Rush to Empire, 1898 (American Forum)
Evan Thomas
11/11/2011 -
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: A Roundtable Discussion on the Twentieth Anniversary (Colloquium)
Allen C Lynch, Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey J. Rossman, Yuri V Urbanovich
11/9/2011 -
Eisenhower: The White House Years (American Forum)
Jim Newton
11/7/2011 -
A Weapon of Mass Instruction?: The Foreign Relations Series and the Politics of American Globalism
Josh Botts, Melvyn P. Leffler, William B McAllister, Marc Selverstone, William Hitchcock
10/31/2011 -
Looking Toward the 2012 Elections (American Forum)
Susan Glasser
10/28/2011 -
From Clinton to Bush to Obama: What Have We Learned about Presidents and Foreign Policy?
Rose McDermott, Christy Clark, James Lindsay, Sidney M. Milkis, John M. Owen, William B Quandt
10/24/2011 -
From Nixon to Obama (American Forum)
Bob Woodward
10/19/2011 -
Green Transportation (American Forum)
Terence R. McAuliffe
10/17/2011 -
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq for Afghanistan and Beyond (American Forum)
John Nagl
10/15/2011 -
George H.W. Bush Oral History Symposium
10/12/2011 -
America's Hegemonic Dilemmas: Building Legitimate and Loyal States in an Age of Global Insurgency (Colloquium)
David A. Lake
10/7/2011 -
Who Perceives Government's Role in Their Lives? (Colloquium)
Suzanne Mettler
10/7/2011 -
Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain (American Forum)
Jim Lehrer
10/3/2011 -
Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics (American Forum)
Jeff Greenfield
9/30/2011 -
Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (American Forum)
Marvin and Deborah Kalb
9/26/2011 -
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda (American Forum)
Eric Schmitt, Thom Shanker
9/23/2011 -
Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House (American Forum)
Ron Nessen
9/19/2011 -
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother (American Forum)
Janny Scott
9/16/2011 -
The Kennedy Crises: Cuba and Berlin, 1961 (Colloquium)
Alan Brinkley
9/7/2011 -
Higher Education as the Engine of the American Economy (American Forum)
Teresa A. Sullivan
5/26/2011 -
The Obama Administration and Congress
Professor Jeff Jenkins, Sidney M. Milkis, Nolan McCarty, Barbara Sinclair
5/23/2011 -
Managing the News: Revelations from Secret White House Recordings and Presidential Oral Histories
Professor Brian Balogh, David Coleman, Barbara Perry, Marc Selverstone
5/15/2011 -
CANCELLED: The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda (American Forum)
Peter Bergen
5/13/2011 -
2011 Spring Fellowship Conference
5/11/2011 -
WikiLeaks and the Toppling of Middle Eastern Dictators: A Winter of Global Surprises (American Forum)
David E Sanger
5/6/2011 -
2011: A Pivotal Year in Iraq and Afghanistan (American Forum)
Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik
5/2/2011 -
Freedom's Main Line: The Freedom Rides at 50 (American Forum)
Derek Catsam
4/29/2011 -
How Wars End: Why we Always Fight the Last Battle (American Forum)
Gideon Rose
4/28/2011 -
CHEST Workshop: Electricity, History and our Energy Future
David Gee, Chris Jones
4/25/2011 -
The Turn: Reflections on American Foreign Policy, 2001-2011 (Colloquium)
Anne-Marie Slaughter
4/25/2011 -
The Bay of Pigs (American Forum)
Howard Jones
4/20/2011 -
The Social Animal (American Forum)
David Brooks
4/18/2011 -
Jack Kemp and the Tax Reforms of 1981 and 1986
Alan Murray, Brian Domitrovic, Morton Kondracke
4/11/2011 -
Let Us Begin: The Forgotten Liberalism of John F. Kennedy (American Forum)
David Greenberg
4/8/2011 -
The Future of the Liberal Internationalism (Colloquium)
G. John Ikenberry
4/8/2011 -
Arms Control (American Forum)
Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard, Jr.
4/5/2011 -
From the White House to Your House: A Reporter's Guide to Getting the News and Navigating Media
Shelby Coffey
4/4/2011 -
The Upcoming National Election in Turkey: National, Regional, and International Implications (American Forum)
Henry P. Williams, III
4/1/2011 -
The Credit/Welfare State Trade Off: A Demand-side Theory of Comparative Political Economy (Colloquium)
Monica Prasad
4/1/2011 -
Christian Exclusivism, American Exceptionalism, and U.S. Foreign Policy (American Forum)
The Rev. Dr. George Regas
3/28/2011 -
Understanding Public Opinion in an Era of Discontent (American Forum)
Andrew Kohut
3/25/2011 -
Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of Crisis (Colloquium)
Dara Strolovitch
3/25/2011 -
JFK and America's Peace Corps (American Forum)
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
3/18/2011 -
Observations of a Journalist-Turned-Marine Corps Intel Officer (American Forum)
Matt Pottinger
3/16/2011 -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidential Tapes 1964 (American Forum)
Kent Germany, Guian McKee
3/14/2011 -
Afghanistan (American Forum)
Gina Bennett
3/11/2011 -
The "Peace Process" and the Middle East Peace (American Forum)
Elliott Abrams
3/7/2011 -
Does Jihadism Have a Future? (American Forum)
Nelly Lahoud
3/4/2011 -
By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (American Forum)
Michael F. Holt
2/28/2011 -
A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (American Forum)
T. R. Reid
2/25/2011 -
Reaching for a New Deal: Obama's First Two Years (Colloquium)
Theda Skocpol
2/25/2011 -
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq (American Forum)
John Dower
2/21/2011 -
Remembering the Civil War (American Forum)
Gary W. Gallagher
2/18/2011 -
Progressivism's Holy Grail - Obama and Health-Care Reform (Colloquium)
James Morone
2/18/2011 -
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War (American Forum)
James Bradley
2/16/2011 -
More Great Trials of the Century (American Forum)
Jack Ford
2/11/2011 -
Understanding Rising Violence in Mexico (American Forum)
Andrew Selee
2/7/2011 -
The Self in Arab Culture: Implications for Suicide Bombing, Corruption, and the Rule of Law (American Forum)
Lawrence Rosen
2/4/2011 -
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans' Support for the War on Terror (Colloquium)
Marc Hetherington
2/4/2011 -
Robert Morris and the Nationalists of 1781 (American Forum)
Charles Rappleye
1/31/2011 -
Liberation: A New Look at the End of World War II in Europe (American Forum)
William Hitchcock
1/28/2011 -
'Let the Word Go Forth': The Rhetoric, Symbols, and Images of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier
1/28/2011 -
The Making of the (First Celebrity) President: 1960 (American Forum)
Michael Duffy
1/24/2011 -
Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (American Forum)
Scott Atran
1/21/2011 -
Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Colloquium)
Thomas J. Sugrue
1/21/2011 -
Progress and Grand Strategy in the Afghan War (American Forum)
Anthony H Cordesman
1/19/2011 -
King: In His Own Words
1/17/2011 -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (American Forum)
Isabel Wilkerson
12/10/2010 -
The Fall Term of the U.S. Supreme Court (American Forum)
Jan Crawford
12/9/2010 -
Growing the Guggenheim: The Politics of Art
Peter Lawson-Johnston
12/3/2010 -
From Political Theology to Vernacular Prophecy: Rethinking Redemption and Politics (Colloquium)
George Shulman


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After promising his allegiance to the Night God, Arenadd Taranisaii escapes death for the second time and vows to free his people. With the dark griffin Skandar by his side, Arenadd begins to gather an army and prepare for war using the power gifted to him by the Night God to move through the shadows.
But even as Arenadd's strength grows his nemesis sets out for the Island of the Sun, seeking the one weapon that can truly kill Arenadd, the man without a heart.
Huddled alone in a cell deep below the city of Malvern, Arenadd Taranisäii sang.
He wasn't sure of the words or the tune. In fact, he couldn't quite remember what he was trying to sing. That didn't matter.
Keeping his bandaged hand tucked in against his chest, he opened his mouth wide and sang as loudly as he could. His voice came out cracked and raucous.
"…danced around the tree when you came to look for me, round and round the… tree we went… back again… take my hand and we'll… something something… dance around the—" He broke off in a fit of coughing.
He had lost track of how long he'd been here. Time had no meaning when there was no light, and even less when you couldn't sleep. And pain made every moment drag out and stretch. He hadn't eaten anything in a while, but that didn't seem to matter much. His mouth hurt where one of his teeth had been knocked out. The swelling on the side of his head had claimed one eye, so seeing wasn't easy, either. But none of it hurt as much as his hand.
He sang anyway. It was all he could think of to do, the only thing that seemed to block out the whisperings in his head.
He thought he must be going mad. His mind was a jumble. Sometimes he would think that someone else was there with him in the cell, until he blinked and they disappeared.
Arenadd, the voice whispered again.
He waved his good hand around wildly. "Go away!"
The voice kept on calling, and he sang again until it went away. After that he dozed for a short while.
When he woke up, there was someone else there. A blurry person, standing in a doorway made of light. He blinked and rubbed his good eye, but the intruder didn't leave. The figure came into focus.
Eventually, he realised the person was talking to him. He jerked his head toward him. "Eh? Eh? Who's that? Rannagon? Is that you? Have you come back for me?"
The reply came: "It's me. Remember me?"
Arenadd blinked some more, until he finally took in the person in front of him. A stocky, blond young man with a boyish freckled face and blue eyes. Familiar eyes. Eyes full of disgust and hatred—and fear.
Arenadd grinned horribly. "Erian Rannagonson. Malvern's favourite bastard. Why are you here? Want me to bite your ear off next?" he said, and cackled.
Erian retreated slightly. "I wanted to see you one last time. Ask you something."
Arenadd dragged himself forward, pulling on the chains that held his wrists to the wall. "The last time before what? Eh, Bastard? What's poor Arenadd got coming next?"
Erian's eyes spat hate at him. "They're going to hang you in the morning, murderer."
Arenadd rubbed his head with his good hand. "Finally. Lazy Southern bastards took forever."
Erian glanced over his shoulder. "Listen to me. Listen!"
Arenadd just stared at him, through a red-rimmed black eye.
"I want to know something," said Erian. "Why did you do it? Why did you kill my father?"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Erian stared blankly at him for a moment, and then gave a strangled shout of frustration. "Answer me! Why did you do it? Why did you really do it?"
The voice had begun to whisper again. It was growing louder. Tired anger coursed through the muddle in Arenadd's mind. Pushing at the floor with his feet, he tried to get up—and fell back against the wall when his chains caught. "What do you want from me, you sun-worshipping nitwit?" he yelled.
"I killed him because he killed me. That's why." He slumped, chest heaving. "Now bugger off and leave me alone."
Erian tried to question him more, but Arenadd started to sing again and didn't stop until he went away.
Once he was alone, he stopped singing and tried to think. So, they were going to hang him. At last, he was going to leave this cell. Tomorrow he would be given death… or his chance to escape. Only time would tell which. And by now he would welcome either one.
Erian let himself be escorted out of the dungeon. His heart pounded sickeningly the entire time. In his head, the vision stayed with him. The bony, wild-eyed wreck of a man, crouched in the corner with one bandaged hand cradled against his body, long black hair matted into ropes around his swollen face. The pointed chin beard crusted with blood, the black robe and leggings all torn and filthy. And that voice, harsh and crazed… mad.
He wished he knew why he had gone to visit him at all. He had been there when Arenadd had been captured, the murdering blackrobe raving all the while. He had seen Malvern's council sentence him to death without a trial, after the Master of Law had claimed that Arenadd was insane and couldn't be tried. Even the guards Erian had bribed to let him in had warned him. Violent and deranged, they said. But Erian had gone anyway.
He was glad when he emerged from the narrow dungeon corridors and back into the more spacious lower level of the Eyrie tower.
Senneck was there, idly grooming a wing. She came to meet him. "Are you satisfied now, Erian?"
He shook his head vaguely. "I don't know."
"Did he tell you what you wanted him to?"
"No. He won't say anything except nonsense. He didn't even look afraid when I told him he was going to be hanged."
"So be it, then," said Senneck. "Let us go and meet with the Mighty Kraal now. He will be waiting."
Erian walked obediently beside her, up the ramps toward the upper levels of the tower. She moved unhurriedly, with the graceful loping gait of all griffins, her tail waving gently behind her. Erian kept pace easily, though his mind was elsewhere.
"I just don't understand it!" he burst out at last.
Senneck didn't look back at him. "Understand what?"
"Any of it! He did all those terrible things, killed all those people—murdered my father—and he didn't even have a reason! That's why I went down there," he added, realising it just at that moment. "I wanted him to give me a reason. But he didn't. I just don't understand why something like that could just… happen."
Senneck's back paws padded on the carpeted floor. "There does not have to be a reason, Erian."
"Yes there does! The gods wouldn't—"
She stopped and turned her head sharply toward him. "There are no gods. Do not delude yourself. Nothing happens but what is made to happen by us and by nature."
Erian gaped at her, before hastily backing down. "I suppose you're right," he mumbled, as she turned away and walked on. "It'd just be easier that way."
"Nothing is easy."
"I know." Erian adjusted the sling holding his right arm. The shoulder still ached.
"Besides," Senneck added more kindly, "the murderer is done with now. We have played our part, and all that is left for us is to claim our reward!"
Erian cheered up a little at that. But a moment later his heart quailed when he remembered that seeing the Mighty Kraal would also mean seeing his human partner. Beautiful Lady Elkin. The woman he now knew he loved but who did not love him in return. But, he told himself quickly, now maybe it would be different. He had caught Arenadd Taranisäii, the notorious destroyer of Eagleholm, the man who had stolen a gang of slaves and led them to overrun the mountain fort called Guard's Post and kill everyone inside it. Arenadd had been one of the most wanted men in Cymria, and Erian had been the one to finally capture him. Now he and Senneck were due to be rewarded, but that didn't matter so much to Erian as the idea that maybe Elkin would be grateful to him. Maybe she would even respect him now for what he had done.
He held on to that hope all the way up to the very top of the tower, where Lady Elkin's audience chamber was. But the moment he stepped into the big marble-lined room, that hope died.
The middle of the audience chamber featured a stepped platform made from slabs of white marble. It may have been large, but it was dwarfed by the massive griffin that crouched at its top. The Mighty Kraal, his white feathers glossy in the lamplight, golden eyes half-closed. There was nobody else with him.
Erian, feeling as if a lead weight had replaced his stomach, knelt in front of the platform. Beside him Senneck bowed her head to the superior griffin, saying nothing.
The Mighty Kraal regarded them both. Finally, he lifted his head and spoke. "You have come to ask me for your reward, Senneck?"
"I have," she said.
"And that is all?"
Senneck's tail flicked uncertainly. "All, Mighty Kraal?"
He looked at her, then at Erian. "You have nothing to tell me?"
"I have not," said Senneck.
Erian felt the giant griffin's gaze burning through him. Feeling he should say something, he finally came up with: "I heard they're going to execute the murderer tomorrow."
"That is true," said Kraal. "But you and I were both there to hear it. Do you have any other thing to tell me about this man you call your enemy?"
Erian squirmed under that golden stare. "He's mad."
Kraal kept his gaze on him a moment longer, before finally looking away with a dismissive huff. "I will give you your reward now."
He used his beak to hook something from under his wing and dropped it in front of Senneck. It was a leather bag, heavy with gold oblong. Erian picked it up happily; he could buy new clothes with this, and a new bow, and better food and nesting material for Senneck.
"You may go now," Kraal told them both, and without waiting for a response he settled down and closed his eyes.
Erian left the audience chamber very gladly, clutching the bag of oblong. "He's a very odd griffin, isn't he?"
"He is old," said Senneck. "And I think he has been idle here too long. A griffin that grows bored can become lazy and foolish—inclined to mystical thoughts."
"He doesn't look that old to me," said Erian.
"I do not know his true age," Senneck admitted. "But he is at least as old as your father was, and probably older. Stories of him go back many, many years. My mother told me about him when I was a hatchling, and said her own mother had once told her."
Erian rubbed his head. "Good gods. Do griffins live that long?"
"Some of them do, it would seem," said Senneck. "Now, let us go back to our nest. I am ready to eat."
On his platform in the audience chamber, the Mighty Kraal shifted and scratched his flank. Yet another meeting with Senneck and her human, and something still nagged at him. Senneck was simple enough. Young and ambitious, as arrogant as every young griffin who had only just chosen a human. But her human was another question. He looked very much like his father, but there was something else about him. Whatever it was, it wasn't anything particularly special. He wasn't important as humans went, just a lowly newcomer to the Eyrie. He wasn't a great fighter or particularly intelligent for a human. But despite all that, Kraal couldn't shake off that feeling. That feeling that was almost… familiarity.
The sound of a door opening behind him brought him back to the present. He didn't need to look to know who the intruder was.
Lady Elkin, Eyrie Mistress, white blonde and fragile. She appeared at Kraal's left side as if by magic. But next to his enormous bulk her tiny frame was easy to miss.
Kraal wordlessly shifted back to make room for her. She sat down between his forepaws, almost lost among his thick chest feathers. "Did you talk to Erian?" she asked.
"He is gone now," Kraal said by way of an answer. "With his reward."
Elkin tucked her hands into the wide sleeves of her gown. "That's good."
"He looked for you," Kraal added. "I think he was unhappy that you were not here."
Elkin said nothing.
"You do not want to see him," said Kraal. "Why have you been hiding? Are you afraid of him?" He sounded genuinely curious.
"I don't have time to deal with him," Elkin said, more sharply than she needed to. "I have other things to worry about. An Eyrie to run."
"He did you a great service by capturing the rogue darkman," said Kraal. "You should have thanked him yourself."
"We gave him his reward," said Elkin, deliberately ignoring her partner's real meaning. "I don't want to talk about him any more. I have work to do."
Kraal took the hint and dropped the subject, simply getting up to follow her when she left. She had been throwing herself into her work lately, as if nothing else mattered. Maybe, for her, nothing did. But Kraal didn't believe that.
Kraal was not the only griffin worried about his human.
Out beyond the city, near the glorified village called Wolf's Town, Skandar huddled down in a thicket of wattle bushes and rested. He had been flying for days, often unable to find food, and by now his wings and his stomach ached.
Nervous and angry with fear, the big griffin pecked at a tick hiding among his wing feathers. He wanted food. He wanted to go back to his new home. But most of all, he wanted his human.
When Arenadd had disappeared, it had taken Skandar some time to start looking for him. He had been too caught up in his new territory and even more caught up with his mate, Hyrenna.
After far too long forced to live a life without the things he expected and loved, finding the mountains at last had been a blessing. No more hiding like a rabbit down a hole. No more doing whatever the human said so that the human would show him to a new and better home for them both. Instead he had had freedom in the mountains and a mate to bear his eggs—and to teach him all the things he should have known all this while. And Arenadd had been there, too, living the way he was supposed to live—with other humans of his own race.
So when Arenadd had gone, Skandar had assumed that all was well and that the human would come back when he was ready. The other humans seemed to think so, too, for a little while. But when they began to worry and to look for the human, Skandar's confusion had grown. Where was Arenadd? Why was he not in the mountains any more? The other humans were leaving, and Hyrenna with them, and Skandar couldn't follow without his human.
So he didn't. He ignored Hyrenna's warnings and flew away to find Arenadd.
It went beyond mere friendship. Arenadd was his.
But no matter where Skandar went, he found nothing. He stayed away from human nests; Arenadd had warned him not to let other humans see him. Skandar didn't want to be seen anyway. He knew what humans that weren't Arenadd could do to him.
He searched the other places instead, where there were trees and hills and rocks. Places he had been before with Arenadd. He found nothing. No sign. No scent.
The great dark griffin rested his head on his talons and sighed. He was lost and starving, and no closer to finding his human. But how could he go back to the mountains alone? He needed Arenadd, needed him to help make sense of the world.
A rustling from nearby made him raise his head sharply. Keeping still, he listened. Something was coming.
Skandar sniffed, and the tip of his tail began to twitch. Human.
He peered through the branches and eventually spotted them, two humans walking together and making noises—that ugly soft-sounding language they used, which made no sense to him. They were coming straight toward him.
Watching them cautiously, Skandar noticed the brown fur on their heads. Not dark humans, like Arenadd. Those humans were good humans that would help him and Arenadd. But these were the other humans, the pale-furred ones, the same ones who had hurt him and tried to take his human away.
Arenadd had explained why Skandar should leave dark humans alone, and he had decided that his human knew best.
But there was no reason to stop these humans from being food.
His mind made up, Skandar slowly rose to his paws. Huge black talons extended. His wings rose.
The humans wandered closer, oblivious.
Skandar leapt. Crashing through the bushes as if they were nothing, he pounced on both humans. One went flying; the other caught the full force of his front paws and was crushed into the ground, its body tearing open. Leaving it dying, Skandar went after the other. The surviving human managed to get up and run, but even with his massive bulk Skandar was faster. He chased it down and killed it with a blow of his beak, before dragging its limp corpse back to where the other one lay.
Humans were far too easy to hunt.
They were delicious, too. Skandar ripped the bodies apart and swallowed them, clothes and all. Nothing was left but a few blood stains.
Once he had eaten, he lay on his belly for a short time and rested. He gulped a little. The food felt good in his stomach.
Having his hunger satisfied made him feel much better, and more optimistic. Newly determined, he got up and walked away south. It was better not to stay near a kill outside of your own territory; the smell attracted danger.
He was near the edge of the trees and preparing to take off when the wind, blowing toward him, brought him a scent.
Skandar drew back under the trees and lifted his head, sniffing. Humans, further away this time. But these weren't food. These were familiar. The unaccustomed word rose up in his head: friends.
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I weigh myself every morning. If I go up 2 pounds, I'll opt for a salad and chicken. But if the number drops, I'll order a cheesesteak and get Dairy Queen for dessert! —Lisa DiBello, 30; Havertown, Pennsylvania
If you're dieting, it's smart to weigh yourself daily. People who did lost twice as much as those who weighed in less often, a study from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities finds. Regular checks keep you focused, Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., of Chicago says. But using the number to pick the day's food won't help your frame (or psyche): Daily ups and downs are usually due to water weight, not lasting loss or gain.
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It was there, about a two-hour drive from downtown Anniston, that an American upset over the government's stance on abortion planted pipe bombs in the park during the '96 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, killing two and injured several others. Eric Robert Rudolph, who also bombed abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham, wasn't caught until 2003. He's now serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary.
The world now has renewed concerns that the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russia, may bear resemblance to the terrorism-marred Atlanta games -- or to the 1972 Games in Munich, or to this year's Boston Marathon. Despite officials' comments Monday about the Feb. 7-23 games, those concerns are real.
To understand the heightened fears, geography and history are key. Volgograd is the largest city close to Sochi, which is hosting Russia's first winter games. (They're 400 miles apart.) Sochi, meanwhile, is near Russia's Northern Caucasus, a region beset with violent Islamist insurgency due in part to Russia's two wars against Chechen separatists. The International Olympic Committee's awarding of the 2014 Games to a city so close to areas long suffering from such violence deserves questioning.
Though the Volgograd bombings have not been directly linked to the Games, the leader of a Chechen terror group released a video this summer in which he urged his followers to "use maximum force" to halt the Sochi festivities.
On Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach said that "terrorism is a global disease" and wrote in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the IOC remains confident in the Russians' ability to safely host the Games.
Rene Fasel, head of the umbrella group of winter Olympic sports bodies, told the Associated Press, "It will be very difficult for everybody. People will complain about security. I'm sure the Russians will do everything possible, but that means we will have an unbelievable [tight] security control." … But "we have to be strong. We decided to go to Sochi and the only answer to these bombings and terrorist incidents is to go there.''
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Residents, tourists join hands against oil drilling
DEL MAR — About 30 people turned out at Powerhouse Beach on June 25 to participate in Hands Across the Sand, a global demonstration of solidarity for clean energy and the protection of coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife and fisheries.
The event began Feb. 13, 2010, when 10,000 Floridians representing 60 towns and cities and more than 90 beaches joined hands to protest the efforts by the Florida Legislature and the U.S .Congress to lift the ban on oil drilling off the coast of Florida. It was the largest gathering in the history of the state united against expanding oil drilling in Florida's coastal waters. Demonstrations were held from Jacksonville to Pensacola Beach.
Hands Across the Sand went global on June 26, 2010, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Yasmine Zein-Phillipson, a senior at Torrey Pines High School, and member of the Surfrider Foundation, served as chairman of the fledgling Del Mar chapter.
"I surf and love the ocean," she said. "After the Gulf oil spill last year, I don't want the place that I love to be ruined."
Yasmine explained that the low turnout was due to this being the first year that Del Mar participated.
"There is a Hands Across the Sand event in Pacific Beach that's really big and one in Oceanside," she said. "Ours will be bigger next year."
Amy McCluer and her daughter, Katie, traveled from Glendale, Ariz., to participate in the Del Mar event.
"The reason they are drilling off-shore is because everything else (oil wells) is gone," said Katie.
McCluer blames the United States government for bowing to pressure from the automobile industry, and not investing more in alternative sources of clean energy.
"Humans are killing our planet," she said, weeping. "People think it's not going to affect our generation. I want my daughter to come here when she's my age, and be able to have a vacation on a clean beach."
McCluer added that a Hands Across the Sand event was being held simultaneously at Tempe Beach Park, overlooking Tempe Town Lake, a dry riverbed converted into a recreational reservoir a few years ago.
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Super Bowl Super 2 Foot SandwichUser Submitted Recipe
4 - 2 foot long Italian hoagie rolls
1/2 lb thinly sliced quality baked ham
1 lb thinly sliced provolone cheese
1/2 lb thinly sliced Capicola ham
1/2 lb thinly sliced hard salami
1/2 lb thinly sliced garlic baloney
1 head shredded lettuce
4 vine ripe tomatoes
2-cups chopped green olives
1 cup slice mild banana peppers
1 12oz jar roasted red peppers
Virgin Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
salt, pepper and granulated garlic if garlic salt delete adding salt
slice bread and lay open
add shreaded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, roasted peppers, green olives, banana peppers.
sprinkle oil and vinegar, salt, pepper, oregano and garlic
then layer meats and cheese and be generous. Your sandwich can be held together with large long tooth picks and cut into sections just before serving.


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